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True, Vice magazine’s editors probably think of skinheads as being passé, but Vice editor Gavin McInnes’ ironic racism and in-your-face nationalism echo the sentiments of young white supremacists everywhere: "I love being white and I think it’s something to be very proud of," he told the Times. "I don’t want our culture diluted. We need to close the borders now and let everyone assimilate to a Western, white, English-speaking way of life."
It sounds like a stupid, jocular thing that VICE would write. But then again...
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... and @Foster Kamer beat me to the punch. You learn something new every day!
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It's the same sort of insecurity that drove you to be picked on in the first place, but the converse of it. Where you're still at heart insecure, which is why you get such a fucking rush out of being "manly", and of getting beaten up in underground boxing matches and lionizing fighting like every Vice issue does (fighting is sort of fun, but once you lose part of a precious, irreplaceable tooth the gleam goes off the fucking rose real fast). Some people eventually get over that, and just start being men.
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Throughout my 20s, when I was deeply into training in Japanese martial arts, I studied under a lot of very old men who have nothing left to prove to the world.
My conclusion from the whole experience is that "real men" of accomplishment and authority rarely have much to say about anything divisive.
I'm talking about men like Mikami ([www.lkakarate.com]), Oishi ([www.oishi-judo.com]), and Mori ([www.jkakarate.com]) -- witty, powerful, quiet, inscrutable, impermeable and always keeping the ethic and responsibility of power close to their hearts.
To me, the anti-hero worship of Vice, etc. (bikers, racists, terrorists, criminals, etc.) is just childish fantasy.
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Also, he's Canadian, so I think a lot of that 'love being white' schtick has a lot to do with sticking it to Americans.
I worked with McInnes years ago. He's a genuinely friendly, hilarious, bombastic dude.
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Not buying it.
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Next, kickball as a metaphor for the United States' military hegemony.
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Kids will be kids however, and that's OK. Just as long as they don't forget to grow up. Oh, the irony.
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Lazy, negative cynicism is something to be embarrassed of. It's all about active, positive skepticism now.
They're conceptual cousins...you can still look pretty cute (probably cuter - and less obnoxious!)while doing it and - seriously - the music is better.
And won't you feel better when you're not feigning phony oppression anymore?
What took you guys so long? Party time!
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